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1 Ben and Stephen and Nick
A quiz on some of my favorite modern British authors. Nothing too high-brow here - what these men have in common is readability and wit.
Average
10 Q
agony
Aug 24 05
1608 plays
2 Famous First Words : Great British Novels
This is the second installment in my "Famous First Words" series. I'll give you some clues, then the first line of a British novel, you just pick the title and author. Watch out: in question ten, I'll give you the author, you pick the novel!
Average
10 Q
thula2
Sep 11 12
141 plays
3 London In Literature
Naturally enough, a lot of English literature is concerned with the capital, and many authors are intimately associated with the city. Here is a quiz on London in literature from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Tough
15 Q
TabbyTom
Nov 20 02
2139 plays
4 Yup, English and Irish Lit
Here are some questions on English and Irish writers, their works, etc., all trivialized for your safety and enjoyment. Enjoy!
Tough
15 Q
Lofgeornost
Nov 18 01
1554 plays
5 Scottish Literature
Robert Burns is possibly the most famous Scottish writer but there are plenty of others, see how well you know them.
Tough
15 Q
alan03
Dec 12 03
696 plays
6 Do You Know Your Early British Novels?
This quiz will cover only British novels (no poetry) up to the Modernist period. Good luck!
Average
10 Q
cotton804
May 01 09
1116 plays
7 English Lit 101
See if you can recall facts about authors, poets and their works found in literature from the British Isles.
Tough
10 Q
debodun
Jun 12 11
474 plays
8 Opening Lines from British Books
I will give you the opening line/s and name of the author. You should then choose from which of that author's books the quote has been taken.
Tough
10 Q
rubytops
Feb 19 12
288 plays
9 Writers From Wales
Wales is a small country which has produced its share of well-known writers, poets and playwrights. Your challenge is to identify them from my clues.
Average
10 Q
bracklaman
Apr 18 06
522 plays
10 London Literary Allusions
You will need to know some literary history to do well in this quiz.
Difficult
10 Q
londoneye98
Jun 27 11
288 plays
11 Post-War British Literature
After Second World War there were important changes in British Literature. There were the Angry Young Men. There were the voices from the ex-Empire.See for yourself what you still remember of those recent 'past times'.
Tough
10 Q
flem-ish
Nov 08 01
1068 plays
12 19th Century British Lit
Your high school teacher would be so proud... or not!
Very Difficult
20 Q
sampras
Mar 19 01
1986 plays
This is category 15004
Last Updated Sep 12 12 6:53 AM

Some sample questions from this category:

* The Alicia Silverstone movie 'Clueless' was based on which Jane Austen novel?
* In which Dickens novel about the civil court system of Victorian England was a character disposed of by 'spontaneous combustion'?
* In which whiny poem does Coleridge lament his injured foot, and the fact that it keeps him from accompanying his friends?
* The sister of this poet is rumored by some, almost certainly falsely, to have had incestuous desires toward her brother.
* Anthony Trollope's 'Parliamentary' novels center on which character?


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